As strange as it might seem, this song was about the qualitative research process. My foolishness or biased nature is formed by past experiences rather than what is actually there. I hear and read into things. The use of a woman was a perfect metaphor for this. I thought of my beautiful young friend from Toronto (the one we call Canadian Sue) as an inspiration.

Where do you want to go?

I thought I always knew
When feelings they were true
and understood the whole and all its parts
But words you never said
were quietly misread
And now I feel a fool
Oh foolish heart

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So let me go down easy
soften up my fall
Tell me if it’d been another time
Hold me and deceive me
and if you cared at all
Make believe you knew this heart of mine

I guess I should have known
but I’ve been so long alone
that ghosts appear before me in the dark
and it just a little while
I found lightness in your smile
but that was all it was
Oh foolish heart

There’s nothing more to say
I guess I’m on my way
I remember now, my age, my role, my part
It was only just because
the man that I once was
fell in love with you
Oh foolish heart.